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One Act Play Scripts & Musicals

  • Discover One act plays less than 60 minutes running time.
  • 1 act play script is written to be performed without an intermission. You will find one-act plays for middle school, high school.
    Discover:
  • one act comedies
  • one-act dramas
  • one-act dramedies
  • one-act Fable
  • one-act Fairytales
  • one-act Farces
  • one-act Satires,
  • one-act Plays with Music.

Find one act play scripts suitable for college, community groups, seniors groups, spiritual communities, professional theatres and touring theater companies.

  • Off Our Rockers

    $13.70$110.00
    This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life.
  • Original Relocation

    $6.97$29.95
    Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.
  • Priming the Pump

    $11.97$120.00
    Fight for Life is a low-rent Jerry-Springer-style talk show whose mantra is embodied by its two major chants: Fight for Life and Stage the Rage; its ratings are sliding and fast. Along comes Grace Truman, a guest whose story seems likely to reverse their declining numbers but she is not quite the guest that host, Burt Solomon, expected.
  • Short Plays for Long Lives

    $16.97$110.00
    A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors.  They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group.  These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
  • A collection of six 10-minute satires - plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.
  • The Trunk

    $8.95$48.00
    A man is about to board a mysterious train when he is stopped because of the size of his luggage. What is in his trunk that he is so reluctant to part with? And where is the train going? In this 15-minute play, L. Elizabeth Powers bears witness to the fact that it's never too late to take a different path.
  • A very different Dorothy lands in Oz to find some romantic interest from one of the Munchkins and a conflict over language and meaning from the Good Witch.
  • As Miranda prepares to go to sleep, she recounts the events of her day—and her life—through a series of imagined and surreal interactions with her parents and psychiatrist.

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